NEW HOPE, PA.- Prior to Noel Barrett’s richly varied May 21, 2011 “Something for Everyone” sale, some collectors speculated that the whimsical clockwork veggie man on the catalog cover might take the blue ribbon on auction day. While the…
Auctioneer Noel Barrett Promises "Something for Everyone" in His May 21 Sale
NEW HOPE, PA.- As its title promises, Noel Barrett’s May 21 auction has “something for everyone” within its 714-lots, from fresh-to-market holiday items and antique games to coveted clockwork toys and salesmen’s samples. The Saturda…
Auctioneer Noel Barrett Promises "Something for Everyone" in His May 21 Sale
NEW HOPE, PA.- As its title promises, Noel Barrett’s May 21 auction has “something for everyone” within its 714-lots, from fresh-to-market holiday items and antique games to coveted clockwork toys and salesmen’s samples. The Saturda…
Russia’s Venerable Bolshoi Theater to Reopen in October After Years of Reconstruction
MOSCOW (AP).- Russia’s venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin’s request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era. Th…
Russian Communist-Era Art Form, which Emerged in the 1920s, Withers Away
PALEKH, RUSSIA (AP)- A squirrel tail. Wolf teeth. Sheets of gold. Flax oil. These are the things Vladimir Buldakov uses to work a feat of modern-day alchemy: transforming an ordinary papier-mache box into a gilded miniature masterpiece that will tell …
Two 150-Year-Old Civil War Dolls Get X-Rayed at VCU Medical Center for Signs of Smuggling
RICHMOND (AP).- Two Civil War-era dolls thought to have been used to smuggle medicine past Union blockades were X-rayed Wednesday, disclosing hollowed papier-mache heads that once could have contained quinine or morphine for wounded or malaria-stricke…
Two 150-Year-Old Civil War Dolls Get X-Rayed at VCU Medical Center for Signs of Smuggling
RICHMOND (AP).- Two Civil War-era dolls thought to have been used to smuggle medicine past Union blockades were X-rayed Wednesday, disclosing hollowed papier-mache heads that once could have contained quinine or morphine for wounded or malaria-stricke…
Civil War Dolls Get X-Rayed for Signs of Smuggling
RICHMOND (AP).- Two Civil War-era dolls thought to have been used to smuggle medicine past Union blockades were X-rayed Wednesday, disclosing hollowed papier-mache heads that once could have contained quinine or morphine for wounded or malaria-stricke…